• 🦊 OneRedFox 🦊@beehaw.org
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    2 hours ago

    The Pixelfed guy does good work, but video hosting/streaming is the most difficult use-case to compete in due to infrastructure costs; I’m interested to see how he’s planning to handle this and I wish him luck.

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      1 hour ago

      Also there is no casino algorithm showing you what big data knows will make you stay for a while.

      In TikTok or instagram reels, you don’t follow people you like. You just watch stuff happening.

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        In TikTok or instagram reels, you don’t follow people you like. You just watch stuff happening.

        That’s actually the whole point of TikTok, what made it different when it started. An app for short videos where you follow people you like is more of a Snapchat competitor, not TikTok.

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      he mentioned in the past that the videos will be automatically deleted after some period of time, so that should make the storage situation a little bit more manageable.

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    I signed up and never got the verification email. It happened to basically everyone else that signed up too. Weird. Looks like the “official launch” was actually the “beginning of beta test”, weird how they marketed it as an “official launch”.

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      the creator delayed the launch because he had to write the legalese for the service, and on top of that I think he’s waiting for the app stores to approve the app (the service isn’t available through a browser).